Cutthroat Backgammon
Cutthroat backgammon is a cruel variation of chouette backgammon, in which instead of lining up in teams, each of the three cutthroat backgammon players is out on his own. The 3-players was created by David Wright in 2000 and it inspired by a ruthless variation of a billiard game known as cutthroat pool or screw-your-buddy pool.
Traditionally, backgammon is a two-player game. Yet, there are several backgammon variations designed for more than two players. Chouette is the most well-known example of a multiplayer backgammon game. In chouette, one player (the one who rolls the larger die), plays the "box" while the rest of the participants form a "team", with the player who rolled the second-larger die becomes the team's "captain", and so the team vs. the box are playing a standard heads-on backgammon on a single board.
In cutthroat backgammon, the three players gather around one backgammon board. One player is the outside player and the other two are the inside players, but they don't form a team; instead, everyone is playing everyone else. Or more accurately, the player with the weaker position is the target of the other two. Cutthroat backgammon is not a game for beginning players, since it requires lots of fast thinking and enormous understanding on when to use the doubling cube.
More Cutthroat Games
Cutthroat backgammon continues the tradition of cutthroat games, where the purpose is to attack one another and the atmosphere is clearly unfriendly. Cutthroat pool, in which the three players tackle and trap one another so they will sink their balls into the table's pockets, is a famous cutthroat example. The example of cutthroat bridge (not to be confused with the actual structure near Ladybower reservoir in Derbyshire, England, named after a 16th century man who was found in the area with a cut throat) is more similar to cutthroat backgammon.
Bridge is normally played by four players who split into two pairs and play against one another. Cutthroat bridge, created in the 1950s by a bridge player called S. B. Fishburne, is a three-player variation of bridge in which the player who makes the higher bid at the opening bid is also entitled to name a partner who will play the dummy hand throughout the game.
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